torsdag 30. juni 2011

I recently saw the Magnolia licious highlites latest bloghop and I decided that I wanted to join in on their challenge. I made a chocolate box from scratch. You can find the tutorial drawing here. I am going to give away my chocolate box, so the inside will be decorated with the chocolate and a personal text.

My chocolate box in black, white and pink:

Recipe:
White and pink bazill
Patterned paper from Maja design(again): Sommartidar badlakan.
Roses from storyteller and I am roses.
Black flower from a private buy
The little black ribbon is from Kort & Godt
Embossing: Used a folder from embossing essentials to emboss the pink bazill on the lid.
Cardboard painted with white studio gesso
All edges are coloured with black soot distress ink eventually.
Diecut lacey oval coloured with dusky rose and baby pink promarkers on the edges.
Magnet to hold it together
Oval diecut to make the lid shut.
MS border punch on the front and backside of the box

Tilda is coloured with these promarkers: cool grey 5,4,3,2,1 and edges with ivory.

It's time for another challenge at Top Tip Tuesday again, and this time you'll see great contributions from both teams. This post is going to be a long one, lots of sponsors and I took a lot of pictures of my contribution this week. Hope you'll like it.

This time the subject is T is for...
some things that begin with a T? Try thinking about a few like for instant: teapot, teepee, tent card ..Triple.. etc etc... There are some more great tips on the TTT blog if you look here.

Pizzazz Aplenty is run by Judy Bennet, and she is offering this fabulous stack of goodies...

Pkg of 3, Victorian Lady Cameos, Turquoise

Pkg of 2, Boy & Girl Cameos, Blue/Gray

Pkg of 6, Button Stick Pins

Pkg of 6, Small Heart Stick Pins

Pkg of 20, Crystal Gem Stick Pins, Red

One pkg each of: 2mm, 3mm, 4mm Olive Green flatback Pearls

One pkg each of: 3mm, 4mm Dark Chocolate flatback Pearls

One pkg each of: 3mm, 4mm Olive Green flatback Rhinestones

5 yards Only Olive Dream String

10 yards Brown & White Baker's Twine

1/4" x 25-yard roll Sheer Organza Ribbon, Mint Green

One Gel Picker

Judy's Bio: Pizzazz Aplenty began with only a bit of bling and some ribbon, but in the last six months, we've added so much more... including stick pins and cameos for that vintage look. Our "Buy One Get One Free," sale on many of the flat back pearls and rhinestones will begin July 3rd. This sale was a tremendous success in January, so be sure to check back July 3rd through July 17th. We only do this sale twice a year, so this is the time to stock up.

Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of dies cuts, digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!"

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Here is my contribution for this weeks theme:

As you probably can see I've chosen to make a teepee card. It was actually the second thing I thought about after the tent card... You can find the tutorial here. When you go ahead to make a teepee card you should make sure that all the pages are the same sizes and glue the patterned paper at the same side on everyone of them;)

Now you should go check out this week's challenge in the main blog here. There are so many gorgeous projects from all the other TTT girls, and they are so worth a look;)

This time I chose to make a folding card. I have found some tutorials that I made once a long time ago, and thought it was due to do one of them again for this card:) Here's the tutorials. I've chosen tutorial number 2.

tirsdag 21. juni 2011

This week it is the blue teams week to shine on the challenge blog. They've created amazing cards for this challenge so go have a look. This week is tutorial week too, so Annette has made a brilliant tutorial on how to make a criss cross card.

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I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people. I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.

This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

I've made my contribution as well, here in my blog.I've chosen to make a criss cross card as well.

And now for my stamp. It is one of my latest buys and it is from Whimsy stamps and it's called: Wee Snippet. She is coloured with these promarkers: blush, pastel pink, sandstone, primrose, marsh green, moss, pear green, cinnamon, caramel, tan, cornflower, bluebell, lavender, lilac, blossom and ivory.﻿